Good morning everyone! Happy Friday to you all! The weekend is almost here! Do you have any fun weekend plans? Anything going on? I have to work this weekend but thankfully they are quickie jobs so hopefully I can do a lot of resting and regrouping this weekend.
Today’s Topic – Do you think parents should pay their children to do chores around the house or do you think children should do them just because it’s the right thing to do with no payment? Honestly, we used to give our daughter a $1.00 when she was young and as she got older we would increase her “chores” salary. By the time she was 15 she was getting $5.00 a week and at 17 she was getting $10.00 a week. My brother on the other hand demands that his children do a long list of chores and his boys don’t get chore money at all. In my opinion, I don’t think that there is a right or wrong way to do it. I see nothing wrong with giving them a little something and I don’t see anything wrong with giving them nothing too. Your thoughts?
We had a few giveaways close late last night so we do have winners to announce this morning. As always, we spend time every morning validating entries, trashing out the cheater entries and then randomly select a winner using random.org. We then double check that persons entry to make sure it’s legit and then finalize it.
Reese Bath Bombs Winner is… rochelle haynes
Thomas & Friends DVD Winner is… T.h.Ransom
Congratulations to both of our lucky winners! I will be emailing you both shortly. Have a great weekend everyone and it’s time to start getting ready for our 4th annual holiday gift guide which begins on October 1st. YAY!!!
Congrats to the winners!
No kids. When I was growing up, my sister and I got a weekly allowance. I think it was 25 cents going up to $1.00, but this was 50 years ago and that was pretty good money. We were just expected to do our chores.
Giving kids chores is a good way to instill good habits and develop some sort of work ethic at a young age. It’s been doing wonders for my nephew.
I think they should not be paid for normal chores but have a list of extra stuff and what it pays to do them!
Paid for chores?? I had to chores for free…just to learn to be clean. No fair. ha ha
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Congratulations to the 2 winners.
I think it is important for kids to learn how to handle money too. Whether you are giving them money for chores or simply an allowance you need to stay consistent and not give them extra whenever they ask for it.
Well, I think a person would need to look at the whole picture. I think it is a good idea. In fact, as kids get a little older (ie old enough to appreciate it..) that you keep giving them optional chores to earn more money. I don’t see any harm, and could help them start realizing early on about saving for something they want, budgeting, etc. Learning early on if you spend your entire chore/allowance money in 10 minutes, then you have to wait until you have more. I read money issues are the biggest cause of divorce, perhaps helping kids early on learn to handle money is a good thing, rather than just giving them money, or buying everything for them, and then also separately having them to chores which they probably feel more burdensome about – with no association to any recompense.